DIGGING FOR VICTORY

Back in 1992 the Conservative Government set up a Cones Hotline so annoyed members of the public could report incidents of roads being dug up, sometimes without warning, by utility companies, and then left...without explanation.
Yesterday, someone came and excavated a big hole in Yarborough Road, Brigg, near its junction with O'Hanlon Avenue.
At 7am today, Yarbrough Road remained closed to traffic, and suspended above the hole in the road was a mechanical digger, surrounding by wire fencing.
There's no signage at all to indicate the identify of the firm doing the work. Or to suggest what the workmen are up to. Nor do I recall seeing any public notice about a temporary road closure.
Unfortunately, John Major's Cones Hotline was disbanded within a few years of being set up, and there aren't actually any cones laid out on Yarborough Road.
So we'll just have to hope whoever is responsible for whatever repairs gets the job finished quickly.
In the early 1960s, actor Bernard Cribbins had an unlikely comedy hit record about a hole in the ground - "so big and sort of round it was" - which ended up with someone wearing a bowler hat being buried in the hole.
A bit extreme - but it would be nice to know which boss (with our without bowler) from which firm is behind the Yarborough Road work. And why it's necessary.